Afghanistan Map Shows Taliban Now Control More Than Half the Country. ... Taliban fighters have captured 10 provincial capitals in just one week, with Ghazni City the most recent to have been taken.

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: A map compiled by a news site called The Long War Journal has an update on America's longest war. As U.S. troops withdraw from Afghanistan, the color-coded map shows the ...

President Obama announced a significant shift to his Afghanistan exit plan Thursday: Instead of exiting, there will now be up to 5,500 U.S troops staying in Afghanistan through at least 2017 ...

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Afghanistan: Map shows the Taliban’s rapid advance as more cities fall. ... Ghazni in particular is a strategic asset, as it sits on a major highway and is just 150 kilometres southwest of Kabul.

Taliban car bomb hits intelligence compound in Afghanistan, killing at least 12 and wounding schoolchildren July 7, 2019 Afghan security forces inspect the site of the car bomb attack in Ghazni ...

Map last updated on Oct. 6, 2015. The Long War Journal has been tracking the Taliban’s attempts to gain control of territory since NATO ended its military mission in Afghanistan and switched to an ...

Afghanistan: Mapping the advance of the Taliban. An animated map showing how and when the Taliban captured 26 out of the country’s 34 provincial capitals in just 10 days.

Peace Road Map for Afghanistan Will Let Taliban Negotiate Women’s Rights Afghanistan must “ be free of fear and abuse” under a final peace deal, says the country’s ambassador to Washington.

Ghazni is crucial because it straddles the Taliban's supply lines. Sponsor Message But when the Americans sent thousands more troops to Afghanistan, they didn't come to the area — until now.